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“You have to do maintenance, self-performing maintenance all the time with your craft,” said one veteran officer. Author: Emily Longnecker Updated: 1:49 AM EDT April 16, 2021 INDIANAPOLIS — “That’s the big question of the day in this whole thing, how in hell could she mistake it,” asked Mike Dove, a former Brownsburg police chief. That’s what the 25-year law enforcement veteran asks himself when he watches the video of now-former Brooklyn Center Pol...

By Dennis Yusko City of Albany PUBLISHED 9:01 PM ET Apr. 14, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:01 PM EDT Apr. 14, 2021 SHARE A group of protesters clashed with police officers outside the Albany Police South Station following a march across the city on Wednesday evening. Protesters hurled bottles at police officers and one broke a window of Albany Police South ...

Dog the Bounty Hunter Campaigning to Have Police Swap to Non-Lethal Bullets On 4/16/21 at 7:07 AM EDT Dog the Bounty Hunter has launched a campaign to get police officers to use non-lethal bullets and other means to take down suspects, citing his own experience of hunting fugitives. Duane Chapman, who is better known by his bounty hunting persona and became something of a household name as a result of his reality TV show, told Fox News on Thursday that there were other ways to handle suspects t...

Created: April 15, 2021 10:30 PM Even before protests over the police killing of Daunte Wright gave way to unrest in Brooklyn Center, leaders in a city on the other side of the metro launched a response plan that had been nearly a year in the making. Jane Prince, a council member representing St. Paul’s east side, says her city learned important lessons after what she described as a communication breakdown in the days immediately after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “O...

Parents of gay teen who died by suicide file lawsuit against district The family of Nigel Shelby filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the district who attorneys said violated laws The parents of Nigel Shelby have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an Alabama school district after the teenager died in April 2019. NBC News reported attorneys for the family said school staff violated Title VI, which prohibits intentional discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin, and T...

Taser-gun confusion noted in criticism of fatal San Leandro police shooting of Steven Taylor By Lisa Fernandez San Leandro police failed to deescalate Walmart scene An independent group found that the two San Leandro officers who killed Steven Taylor in a Walmart failed to deescalate the situation. SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - As independent investigators determined that two officers who played a role in the fatal shooting of Steven Taylor -- a mentally ill Black man waving a bat inside a Walmart sto...

As we reflect on those we’ve lost, please remember the families of our fallen as well. In addition to losing 97 law enforcement professionals in the line of duty this year, there are 50 widows and 117 children who’ve lost a parent.

Listen • 5:51 Georgetown Law School professor Paul Butler testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on policing practices and law enforcement accountability in June 2020. In an NPR interview, Butler says police in Brooklyn Center, Minn., didnt need to pursue Daunte Wright over an outstanding warrant. A law professor and former federal prosecutor argues that police in Brooklyn Center, Minn., didnt need to pursue Daunte Wright, who was killed by an officer who sai...

AP Photos We call them “mass shootings.” Thursday night, yet another. The Associated Press reported: “A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States after a relative lull during the pandemic.” At least seven other people were injured. The gunman took his own life. In response, President Joe...

CHICAGO (AP) — Disturbing bodycam video released Thursday after public outcry over the Chicago police shooting of a 13-year-old boy shows the youth appearing to drop a handgun and begin raising his hands less than a second before an officer fires his gun and kills him. A still frame taken from Officer Eric Stillman’s jumpy nighttime body camera footage shows that Adam Toledo wasn’t holding anything and had his hands up when Stillman shot him once in the chest about 3 a.m. on March 29. Po...